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Extinction Rebellion Radio

Extinction Rebellion Radio is the voice of the climate rebellion, dedicated to covering weekly news and stories on the climate crisis through conversation, interviews and expert perspectives.*logo by Lili AllenExtinctionRebellionRadio@gmail.com

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28:01

Real Zero vs. Net Zero [Re-Broadcast]

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/10/05

Terms like net zero, real zero, absolute zero, carbon neutrality, and so on refer to radically different things. Professor Doreen Stabinsky from the College of the Atlantic joins us to explain the differences and articulate why approaching real zero quickly is the only way to avoid massive global temperature increases.

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28:01

Cutting Emissions by Rationing Fuel

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/09/30

We cannot keep on driving fossil fuel-based cars in massive numbers without limit and expect the planet to be livable in the future. So what would it mean to ration gasoline? How would we do that? How would we do it with the least amount of disruption to society? This episode offers some thoughts, not because we have this all figured out, but just to get the conversation started.

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28:01

Cutting Emissions by Rationing Electricity

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/09/22

This week we talk about how to cut emissions by rationing electricity. It looks like that's going to be the only way to get industrialized countries to seriously cut their power consumption. For decades we've asked businesses and people to cut their energy consumption and it hasn't worked. Energy consumption is still going through the roof and, as a result, Earth is getting hotter every year. How do we ration electricity and fuel in equitable and life-affirming ways? Everything we talk about today

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28:01

We Can't Say We Support Palestine Action

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/09/16

Anyone in the U.K. who says they support Palestine Action could face a terrorism charge and years in jail. Although this is completely separate from climate activism, if the authorities can do it to one group they can do it to another. Also Russia has sold almost one trillion dollars of oil and gas since invading Ukraine, and that's what allows it to keep on invading Ukraine. Lastly, a slight bit of climate good news about soy sauce bottles.

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28:01

Running Out of Stuff

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/09/10

There really are places running out of water, but they don't seem to be genuinely conserving the little bit they have. As we face the looming potential of an electricity shortage, we're certainly not cutting our electricity consumption. On the contrary, it's going up. Are we going to keep on with full-throttle consumption until we run out? Besides posing that question, this episode talks about the ineffectiveness of Russian oil sanctions and the possible extinction of cactus species.

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55:17

Learning to Live in the Dark with Wen Stephenson

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/08/19

Wen Stephenson, who writes for The Nation (among other publications), has a new book out, Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Climate Catastrophe. There is so much despair and doom among people who understand climate change. One big part of the book--the part we focus on in this episode--asks about an earlier time that was likewise filled with doom and despair: the 1930s and 1940s. Wen considers how some of the major writers of that time--Arendt, Camus, Weil, and others--found meaning

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28:01

Climate Disasters of June and July 2025

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/08/12

This week we recount the climate disasters from June and July—some of the significant destructions and disruptions that would not be happening without climate change. This is the latest of an occasional series showing that climate change is not a thing of the future. It’s a thing of the present.

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28:01

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is Worse, but Shame on...

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/08/02

In this episode we talk about the gigantic loss of old growth forests last year. Also, fossil fuel companies are claiming that destroying the environment is freedom of speech, first amendment protected - they're actually making this claim in court. And we look at some reprehensible statements by Sierra Club's former Executive Director. We call out the bad stuff when it's from environmentalists, too.

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7:48

Plastics: To Ban Or Not To Ban?

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/07/25

A short reflection after doing the preceding episodes with Saabira Chaudhuri on plastics. We absolutely must stop producing material that never decomposes and can only be recycled a limited number of times. Otherwise plastics will inevitably cover the earth. Even wild science fiction scenarios aren't solutions. We're better off doing it sooner than waiting a few decades or longer to make the problem worse.

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75:19

How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic with Saabira...

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/07/18

Saabira Chaudhuri was the Wall Street Journal's consumer goods reporter. Her upcoming book is called Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. We learn from her the origins of plastic as a mass consumer good after World War II, already known to big industry as a severe environmental problem by the 1960s, but pushed and pushed onto consumers. Big supermarkets replaced local shops and a disposable throw-it-away society came into being largely through plastic. We talk all about recycling, why

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28:01

Grandmothers Who Get Arrested

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/07/06

Just a short time ago, there were far more street protests, including confrontational civil disobedience where folks deliberately got arrested. We talk with two of them about the experience. As they explain, it's not about getting arrested. It's about bringing attention to the climate crisis that they fear will have a terrible impact on their grandchildren's lives. Through them we hear eyewitness accounts of an action that blocked the home of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, an action that

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55:21

A Rotobic ICE Hurts Our Climate Response

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/06/29

We open with a comment on the Iranian bombings and what they have to do with the climate crisis, then move into the first of a two-part discussion on immigration and climate. The Los Angeles raids and protests are a great illustration of how ICE uses a robotic approach of not considering the social impacts of what they are doing. The thing is, there is a deep tradition of law enforcement trying to consider the social impacts of their policing. Bringing that back in the right kind of way is how we

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28:00

Speaking Out Even When You're Afraid

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/06/22

After a quick note on what happens when there's no more insurance in a climate changed world, we talk about fear of speaking out. We start with the real life example of a wealthy and well-connected person with strong advocacy skills who is not speaking out against the Trump administration out of fear of what could happen to her grandchildren. We digest that and talk about how to feel fear and act anyway.

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28:01

What They Can Do To Palestinian Activism They Can Do...

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/06/03

Whatever authorities can do to one social movement they can do to another one. Watch what's happening to truth-telling about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That could happen in the future to truth-telling about climate change: Individual spokespeople detained or deported without hearings, academic studies de-funded, a society of fear where organizations anticipatorily crack down on what they imagine the authorities would object to, and a general shut-down of truth. This episode tells some truth

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28:01

Could Lawsuits for Damages Close Down Fossil Fuel?

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/05/19

Could lawsuits against fossil fuel companies save the climate? Maybe. If the companies had to pay for even a fraction of the destruction they are causing, they would quickly go out of business. Alycee (who is an attorney) and Matthew (who is not) discuss. Also, the utopia of being truthful, and our semblance of constitutional order.

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28:01

Catching Up On Climate Disasters

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/05/13

We periodically compile some of the climate disasters happening all around the world. This is to show that climate change is causing havoc now. It is a problem for us, not for our grandchildren. This episode consists of some notes on disasters I found in my files and, I believe, have not used; hopefully listeners will pardon the out-of-chronological narration. We end with a survival story we think you will never forget.

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54:36

College Students Doing Climate Research

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/04/28

Most of the guests on this series are credentialed experts who are old, or at least not particularly young. But younger people research the climate, and reflect carefully on the situation. This week we have three students from the University of Liverpool who took a climate course last year that was taught by the producer of this show. One wrote her term paper about geoengineering, one about greenwashing, and one about plant-based diets. The conversation then moves to artificial intelligence, which

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54:41

Mike Berners-Lee on a Climate of Truth

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/04/20

Mike Berners-Lee, the author of There Is No Planet B and other books, joins us to talk about his newest release: A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It And How To Get It. He makes the case for a no-tolerance attitude to dishonesty in politics, media and business. We explore and critique this with him. His core claim is that enforcing the highest standards of honesty in public discourse is the best chance of getting the necessary global action to address climate change and the other crises we're

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28:01

Why Tesla is the Wrong Target

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/04/07

We're talking about Tesla vandalism: why the Trump administration's response is over the top, crazy, and absurd, and why the vandalism itself is a terrible idea. Electric cars and electric charging stations are the wrong target.

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28:01

Mutual aid when the disaster is politics

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/03/29

In this episode, we look at the Trump administration's actions through the lens of our climate crisis and ask: how can we find ways to care for one another through the GOP's disastrous dismantling of our democratic institutions? In many ways, the effects of Trump's policies are (or certainly will be) as devastating to people's lives as hurricanes. Access to food, health care, housing, and other needs are being upended, along with the government institutions we have relied up to help us through such

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